PSYB30H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 17: Co-Op Food, Cultural Psychology, Conscientiousness
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Three major approaches to culture: evoked culture, transmitted culture, and cultural universals. Evoked culture: evoked culture: defined as cultural differences created by differing environmental conditions activating a predictable set of responses, ex. skin calluses and sweat, botswana, for example, tend to have thicker calluses on their feet than most. A closer look: reaching across the great divide: the psychology of. Collectivist- individualist concepts: theory comes almost exclusively from north america and east asia and may not generalize to other cultures evidence critic, far more overlap in the self-concepts of people from different cultures than markus and. Kitayama imply: many individuals in collectivist cultures, for example, do use global traits (e. g. , agreeable, fun-loving ) when describing themselves, many in individualist cultures use relational concepts (e. g. , i am the daughter of . Personality variations within culture: another dimension of transmitted culture pertains to within culture-
